May 28-31, 2026
Photo Gallery from the 13th Boston International Piano Competition
Opening Reception
Competitors and Boston Piano Amateurs Association volunteers attended the opening reception on Wednesday afternoon.
Here are a few of the attendees, the beginning of an exciting four days of music, cameraderie and drama. Four days of master classes, preliminary and subsequent rounds, piano festival and piano marathon, jury feedback and closing reception.
Awards Ceremony
Gold Stream
Grand prize — Jim Chou
2nd place — Andrew Throdahl
3rd Place — Jonathan Shih
Silver Stream
1st prize — Jia Luo
2nd place — Wei Ling Wang
3rd place — Alex Ji
Winner’s recital
Jeff Li, the 2024 Winner, play an entire recital on the theme of loss and death, starting with the Sibelius Valse Triste and Bach Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother.
He played the funereal Chopin Nocturne, Op 48 No. 2, and the Funeral March from Chopin’s Sonata No. 2.
He ended with a jazzy piano arrangement of Paul McCartney's blackbird, channeling his inner Hiromi Uehara.
The Jury: Yukiko Sekino, Hugh Hinton, Isabella Li, Michael Lewin and Jonathan Bass
Gold winners: Andrew Throdahl (2nd), Jim Chou (1st) Jonathan Shih (3rd)
Silver winners: Wei Ling Wang (2nd), Alex Ji (3rd), Jia Luo (1st)
Sergey Schepkin teaches a Chopin Polonaise to Kim Chen in a master class
Roberto Poli and Sing Palat in a master class
Sergey Schepkin explains Rachmaninoff to Carl Di Casoli
Intermission
Sing Palat, Diana Cusano, Roberto Poli, James Tandy
Tony Falcetti and Robert Finley
Michael Lewin congratulates Jim Chou
Chris Kokkinos
Diana Cusano's preliminary round
Andrew Throdahl performs Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Handel
As seen from the pianist's point of view...
Kim Chen, Sing Palat, Jim Chou, Heidi Alina and David Lee
Hugh Hinton, Isabella Li and Sergey Schepkin
Michael Lewin congratulates Wei Ling Wang on her prize
Gold Finalists: Jonathan Shi, Jim Lees, Andrew Throdahl, Jim Chou and Diana Cusano
Gold semifinalists
Tomorrow: semi-finals -- tonight: smile
The Longy Garden
Michael Lewin congratulates Diana Cusano for best classical performance, Beethoven Op 27/1
Tim McFarland teaches the Beethoven Op. 110 to Tianyi Huang
Tim McFarland teaches Daniel Matus
Brian McCorkle turns pages for Chia Ying Lee
Waiting for the jury's decision
The staircase that looks like a grand piano
Debee Slater and Sarah Smyth arrange the BIG cake
Sushi
Making new friends